Residencies |

Ashkal Alwan offers 2 to 3 artists each year a 2- to 3-month research residency in Beirut, covering travel, accommodation and per diem. The Ashkal Alwan residency program targets Arab and international visual artists, writers and curators–emerging or established–and is mostly by invitation, but occasionally spontaneous applications are considered (contact Kasia Wlaszczyk at kasia@ashkalalwan.org for more information). Upcoming residency opportunities will be posted here soon.

Ashkal Alwan hosted artist-in-residence Doa Aly (Egypt) between May and July 2012.

During her residency in Beirut, Doa Aly worked on a video project that she directed and choreographed. Roy (2012) was performed by artist and journalist Roy Dib (Lebanon) during Doa Aly’s stay. The video was screened during Doa Aly’s solo exhibition “Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries” at Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) from May 15th to June 7th, 2013.

Ashkal Alwan hosted artist-in-residence Aaron Hughes(US) between January to March 2013.

As an American veteran of the Iraq war, Hughes’ practice since 2009 has revolved around and often stems from participatory discussions arranged by Hughes in various locations in the context of a traditional tea ceremony. During his time in Beirut, Hughes arranged almost daily tea ceremonies in the afternoon, encouraging those present in Ashkal Alwan’s venue Home Workspace to join together and share their thoughts around tea. Hughes forged a particularly close relationship with HWP participant Raed Motar (Iraq), and the two artists organized the event TEA in Home Workspace on March 19th 2013, marking the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Dabrowska is interested in positioning her work through collaborative and investigative processes dealing with construction and reconfiguration of personal and collective memory, specifically in a context of cultural and temporal displacement, shifting nature of borders, and the social relationship with photographic medium and its role in the construction of identity.

In partnership with the Goethe Institut, Ashkal Alwan collaborated on the Beirut Film Station, a program designed to support young filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa by providing technical equipment and a workspace, a monthly stipend, travel and accommodation in Beirut in which to develop their projects. 14 applicants were selected during 2013-14 for a residency of different length.

Ashkal Alwan’s visual artists residency is supported by
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Accented Residency was supported by the British Council and the individual
institutions mentioned above.

Upcoming Elsewhere & Around

Dec 2016

Exhibition | Breaking Charm: Cheating urban experienceDate: 14-16 December 2016 | Opening on Wednesday December 14 at 6PM Location: Parking lot facing ALBA building This exhibition proposes an alternate space for artists)teachers and students of ALBA) to present their work inside vehicles, embodying the iconographic display of the car. A curatorial proposition by the students of visual Arts in the framework […]

Dec 2016

Exhibition | MEETING POINTS 8Dates: 8 to 17 December Location: La Loge – Kluisstraat 86 rue de l’Ermitage, Brussels 1050 Both Sides of the Curtain unfolds in letters, situations, objects, meanings, and sounds. What began in Cairo, lands now in Brussels, and moves on to Beirut for the spring. A conversation between many bodies, minds, cities, and times, Both […]

Open Call | 1 Mobile, 1 Film, 1 MinuteIn 2016, the Mobile Film Festival is back for its 12th edition. As in the past editions, rules are simple : 1 mobile – 1 minutes – 1 film. Make your own story and submit your film before January 3rd and get a chance to make your own film with a grant of up to […]

Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

A Few Things You Need to Know When Creating an Art Project in a Public Space in LebanonArt in public spaces in Lebanon: A research project and tool guide on the legal and administrative challenges and opportunities It is available online and can be downloaded on ISSUU.

Nov 2016 - Jan 2017

Exposure 8: metabolismsDates: 23 November 2016 – 15 January 2017 Location: Beirut Art Center metabolism: the life-sustaining chemical processes that occur within a living organism. the essential exchange of materials and energy between organisms and the exterior world. The new edition of Exposure, entitled metabolisms, transposes a notion attributed to the body and its survival into the […]

Nov 2016 - Jan 2017

Exhibition| El Zohra Was Not Born in a DayDates: November 17, 2016 – January 7, 2017 Location: Galerie Tanit In its philosophical sense, Al-Jahiliyyah – literally meaning “Days of ignorance” – does not describe a historical period as much as the state of ignorance and darkness that preluded the revelation of monotheistic Islam. This period and its rich cultural polytheistic heritage has been […]

ExhibitionBeirut

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

Exhibition | Adelita Husni-Bey – A Wave in the WellDate: 21 October, 2016 to 30 January, 2017 Location: Sursock Museum, Twin Galleries, GF Stemming from research and in-depth interactions with people, Adelita Husni-Bey’s process-based work questions and makes visible the legislative, pedagogical, and economic structures that frame daily life. A Wave in the Well presents existing work as well as new work produced in […]

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

Exhibition | The Human Scale – Archeological Photographs from The Fouad Debbas CollectionDate: 21 October, 2016 to 30 January, 2017 Location: Sursock Museum, The Fouad Debbas Collection Gallery, Level 1 What the eye sees, photography attempts to reproduce. It responds to our common desire to tour the world “from the comfort of one’s armchair.” In the second half of the 19th century, photographic expeditions to Egypt multiplied, […]

ExhibitionBeirut

Sep - Dec 2016

Exhibition | Haig Aivazian – I Am Sick But I Am AliveDates: September 1 – December 30 Location: Location: The gallery will show new works from the artist’s most recent project, Hastayim Yasiyorum (I am Sick but I am Alive). A project which includes sculpture, drawing, live performance and video. The works reflect on the history and contemporary state of modal “Oriental” music after the dismantlement […]

ExhibitionBeirut

Aug - Dec 2016

Exhibition | Saba Innab – Al Rahhalah (the Traveler)Opening night: September 13 Dates: September 13 – December 30, 2016 Location:, Beirut Al Rahhalah (The Traveler) by Saba Innab, rethinks dwelling and building in temporariness departing from the Palestinian refuge, exile and migration. It is a process of collecting spaces, architectural typologies and know-hows of dwelling in suspension and waiting. Reclaimed from personal memory […]